Missing Objects
Perhaps you could let us know if you see any of these missing objects.
Two vases disappeared in the last decade or so, and one papyrus in 1975. Quite a few coins have not been found, many of them known to be missing since 1966 but others believed to have been in the Middle Eastern Studies Department in 1971. Two Egyptian necklaces and a scarab were not found during the stocktake, and a whole carton of objects - mostly Egyptian - went missing in 1996.
Here is a photograph of the missing papyrus, P.Oxy. 187.
We have photographs of one of the missing vases and a description of the other:
- Attic Black-figure Lip-cup (1979.0259, MUV 55), with gorgonean tondo, published by Peter Connor in Archäologischer Anzeiger (1983) 23-31.
- Attic Red-figure Lekythos (1929.0079, MUV 16), painted by the
Aischines Painter, with the following decoration:
- Bearded Hermes, wearing chiton and chlamys, sandals with binding to calf, carrying caduceus in l., strides to r., looks back and beckons. Short-brimmed petasos over shoulder. Band of white with meander pattern at top; shoulder, b-f palmettes.
Three Egyptian objects purchased in 1968 from the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada, also seem to be missing:
String of beads (necklace) |
Carnelian spheroids with pendants and amulets of amethyst, red jasper and green feldspar. 11th-12th Dynasty. |
String of beads (necklace) |
Blue faience wafers. 18th Dynasty. |
Scarab |
Glazed steatite scarab. 18th 19th Dynasty. 910.47.24. Light blue. Back naturalistic. Prothorax curved, wing cases unnotched, legs well cut. Design: Horus falcon facing right, with flagellum (Gardiner sign-list G6); below, a neb. |
Other Missing Objects
(Not entered in Virtual Museum databases)
- MU 22, 23 two terra cotta antefix fragments.
- MU 28 finger ring.
- MU 43 brick.
- Two rocks.
- An "unknown bronze/copper" blade-like object about 5 cm long, in poor condition and several fragments.
- In a Kodak film box: 9 stone tools (flint blades?) all inscribed with "TG+" in black ink.
- Four sherds, with a note "from Sicily".
- MU 44 Terra sigillata: 7 pieces with several lines of black ink notes inscribed on them.*
- Five pieces of what looks like a lamp, in a box from Giovanni Valt, Venice, marked "From DenDerah (?) 1930" on it.
- An envelope marked "pieces of mosaic from Ostia", with about 10 tesserae in it.
- An envelope marked "Etruscan sherds Castel d'Assos", dated around 1971.
- A clay model, with wool, of a Knitting Nancy, copy of a real one according to a note by G W Clarke that is dated around 1971.
- Ten plaster casts measuring about 5 x 25 cm, with another two in a small box.